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Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

By : Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
Book Image

Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

By: Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg

Overview of this book

If you are a web developer and want to create web applications that look good, are efficient, have rich user interfaces, and integrate seamlessly with any backend using AJAX, then this book is the ideal match for you. We’ll show you how you can integrate jQuery 3.0 into your web pages, avoid complex JavaScript code, create brilliant animation effects for your web applications, and create a flawless app. We start by configuring and customising the jQuery environment, and getting hands-on with DOM manipulation. Next, we’ll explore event handling advanced animations, creating optimised user interfaces, and building useful third-party plugins. Also, we'll learn how to integrate jQuery with your favourite back-end framework. Moving on, we’ll learn how the ECMAScript 6 features affect your web development process with jQuery. we’ll discover how to use the newly introduced JavaScript promises and the new animation API in jQuery 3.0 in great detail, along with sample code and examples. By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully create a fully featured and efficient single page web application and leverage all the new features of jQuery 3.0 effectively.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Selector expressions


The jQuery factory function $() is used to find elements on the page to work with. This function takes a string composed of CSS-like syntax, called a selector expression. Selector expressions are discussed in detail in Chapter 2, Selecting Elements.

Simple CSS

Selector

Matches

*

All elements.

#id

The element with the given ID.

element

All elements of the given type.

.class

All elements with the given class.

a, b

Elements that are matched by a or b.

a b

Elements b that are descendants of a.

a > b

Elements b that are children of a.

a + b

Elements b that immediately follow a.

a ~ b

Elements b that are siblings of a and follow a.

Position among siblings

Selector

Matches

:nth-child(index)

Elements that are the index child of their parent element (1-based).

:nth-child(even)

Elements that are an even child of their parent element (1-based).

:nth-child(odd)

Elements that are an odd child of their parent element (1-based).

:nth-child(formula)

Elements that are the nth child of their parent element (1-based...